If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about writers
A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
Friends who are not writers try to be sympathetic and understanding of a writer's mood, but, truly, it takes one to know one.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
In the process of defending the integrity of my story, I would clean up the structural problems without focusing on them. I've used it myself with the writers I've mentored.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
Our little writer's colony existed for about three years and it would take nearly that long to share the stories we accumulated.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
Were I to decide that I didn't want to be a genre writer, or that I wanted to switch genres, I'd be looking at starting over.Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers
What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.Quote by Lester Bangs about writers
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.Quote by Dean Acheson about writers
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.Quote by Kathy Acker about writers